Edition Five 23.06.2024
Among the collection this fortnight is two partnership announcements. The phrase 'eu agradeço' is one that is exchanged many times a day in Brazil, it translates to I am grateful. Eu agradeço.
Duck Rodeo
When I heard the squeal from the street, I was unsurprised to find the large Muscovy duck mounting a Jehovah’s Witness’ leg. Its muscular neck reached high into her skirt, and, with hard flapping wings, the duck held on tightly.
The ducks had been using my street for some weeks now and were growing in confidence. This seemed to bother no one except the visitors, godly or otherwise.
It was summertime and I spent most of my time sitting in the yard drinking soda water and waiting for the mail. Throughout the day I would hear the flapping, read on
Joel of Blanc
I capture people and their stories. Who happen to be well-dressed. Story first.
Joel and I sit upstairs at Blanc. Tucked into Byron Industrial estate, it’s is a two-floor photography studio, offering natural and indoor lighting, and walls of white cyclorama. And at the heart of it is Joel, born in Indonesia, raised in Paris. I’ve been looking forward to this interview. No notebook penned with blueprints of questions I’d like to remind myself to ask. No first impressions in the form of well-said hellos and some nice nice-to-meet-you’s. Rather, a chance to peer deeper into the life of a friend. Read on
Bayou’s Charlie and Tom
I got Charlie on a morning in Penzance, an evening here in the NR. He had a day ahead of finalising prints and a website to sell said prints, for his brother-in-law, photographer, who is having a show in London this week. I was surf ‘hazed’ as Charlie called it, and would be calling my day done after a bowl of spicy broth shared with friends a stone-throw from our office.
Charlie, donning a blue Topshop tee, lives in the pirate-town of Penzance in Cornwall, and owns Bayou Film Lab in our industrial estate. How does someone own and run a film lab from the other side of the world, and operate with just one employee? Read on
Quanta Organica
I am here in Bali, in the rice fields, in a bamboo shack suspended over a pond of carp studying quantum physics. A strange thing to be doing, but I am doing it. Why should I be interested in quantum physics? The same reason I am interested in anything; curiosity. There was once a time when philosophy and science were the same thing; now they flinch when their hands brush. Let me reach mine out then, and hold two and two together read on
What is going on in the NR for the last of June and the beginning of July?
A new edition! I'm so excited 😊